Past Events

Portfolio Reviews with Iga Janik
Date: Friday August 5th 2011 and Saturday August 6th 2011
Location: Modern Fuel Artist-Run Centre

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Fundraiser for Modern Fuel Artist Run Centre, sponsored by CFRC. This is our sequel to last year's "Slow Dance", voted Best Dance Party of 2010 in the Queen's Journal!

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Let the Holiday Season begin!

ART + CARDS + PARTY
Friday Nov. 26th, 7pm
The Atrium, Confederation Place
237 Ontario St

Modern Fuel Artist-Run Centre is hosting a party to launch its unique deck of playable Art Cards: come celebrate with us and get your first look at this collectible object! Projected to be one of Modern Fuel’s most significant fundraising events this year, the cards will, at the same time, raise the profile of contemporary artists within Kingston and its environs.

Syphon/Fox Poems/Inspirational Decency Co-Launch
Tuesday, October 19 7:00 PM
Novel Idea Books, 156 Princess St., Kingston, ON

Bring your ascots and comically-oversized reading glasses to Novel Idea on Tuesday October 19 and join us for an evening of papers, paper books, and paper tigers. We will be launching:

-The most recent issue of Syphon, Modern Fuel's arty newspaper, which smuggles in another serving of the "Hot Turkey Sandwich," a broadsheet of the Wolfe Island Ferry Story Cabal, edited by Steve Guy. Cabalists Jaime Forsythe and Kate Hallemeir will read. Prick up your ears!

Focus on the Arts All Candidates Meeting

7:30 PM on October 12 at Portsmouth Olympic Harbour

Please come out to the All Candidates Meeting to hear what candidates have to say about the arts and culture in your city. This coming election will be critical for the arts and we must elect an arts-friendly council! Candidates have been provided with a list of questions, but after the formal part of the meeting, members of the audience will also have the opportunity to ask questions. Kingston arts supporter Brian Osborne will be the moderator for the evening.

After last year's phenomenal Solid Gold party, Modern Fuel's team of creatives went back into the lab and cooked up "Spotlight Noir." A Black and/or White dress code will be in effect. DJs include Sélavy, Yakul, and Willy Blake. Doors open at 9pm, Saturday, September 11, 2010.

Portfolio Reviews

Date: Friday August 6th 2010
Location: Modern Fuel Artist-Run Centre

SLOW DANCE

DJs haircut, LK and Abdell Drums (Paul, Laura and Blake) will keep the slow jams coming all night. Designated dancers will be mingling throughout the crowd, getting people up on the floor.

Doors open at 8pm. Party goes to 1:30am.

Dance cards, festive drinks, candy and cheesy decorations will abound.

Dress code: semi-formal to formal. Knock us dead. ...or whatever

This is a fundraiser for Modern Fuel.

From 7-9pm, CFRC djs Sealegs & Drew give a free workshop for women and trans folks on setting up a live PA and DJ-ing. Space is limited so please RSVP to cfrcops[at]ams.queensu.ca.

From 9-10pm, Kingston’s newest DJs (the ones who took the workshop) open up the night with music from their own collections.

10pm onward, Revolutions delivers a lineup of all-female CFRC djs Trishna, Seditious, E, Sealegs and Drew spinning everything from hip-hop to bhangra and latin to house: whatever moves you to a rebellious dancefloor insurgence.

!!!SOLID GOLD!!!

DISCO, DANCING, DRINKS, & DEBAUCHERY.

$8 in advance, $10 at the door
'precious metals' dress code in effect (sequins WILL be considered a precious metal)

A disco-themed dance party featuring the cool groove stylings of DJ’s LK, Sealegs, and Helen @ 10pm, preceeded by a sound-art performance by Craig Leonard @ 8pm. Doors open @ 8pm.

Modern Fuel is a not-for-profit Artist-Run centre that supports innovation and experimentation in contemporary art. We showcase provocative work by emerging and mid-career Canadian artists from diverse cultural communities. By becoming a member you are showing your support for Kingston's artistic community as well as engaging in it.

Member Perks

Participate
Exhibition space in the State of Flux Gallery
Annual juried Members’ Show
Annual Art Auction
Opportunities to work with other artists
Opportunity to vote at the Annual General Meeting

Remember your high school dance parties? Love YouTube? Remember those nights when you were dancing by yourself along with your favourite songs streaming over YouTube? Come to Modern Fuel Friday April 24th for a YouTube Dance Party and join everyone else who likes to do that, but in public. We will be projecting YouTube onto our walls and taking every and any request for great songs and videos. Together we will DJ. Members get in free as part of our Membership Drive. Cash Bar.

Come on out to Modern Fuel on Friday February 27 for our Miracle Fruit Dance Party. Miracle Fruit (Synsepalum dulcificum) is a fruit native to West Africa which contains a natural chemical that temporarily rewires certain tastes buds causing intensely sour flavours to seem deliciously sweet.

$10 at the door buys you one Miracle Fruit tablet, flavour shots and unlimited dancing. Additional tablets are $3 each.

Aroma Restro-winebar & Modern Fuel Artist-Run Centre invite you to join us for our Good Tastes Fundraiser

Join us Saturday, January 24th, 6-9pm at Aroma for an evening of Scrumptious Sound, Creative Cuisine,and an Appetizing Art Auction. Chef Gurkan Soyic of Aroma will be opening his doors to the friends and supporters of Modern Fuel. Aroma will be introducing a new menu which is sure to delight and will include some of Chef Soyic’s signature dishes. A generous percentage of each meal will go to Modern Fuel’s support of young and emerging contemporary artists.

Modern Fuel presents a Holiday Season Spectacular!

From 6-9pm we will be hosting a holiday bazaar complete with crafts for sale, games, bake sales and holiday music courtesy of DJ LK. Start the holidays off right by Fueling up on gifts for your loved ones!

9pm onwards there will be a 'pay what you can' concert featuring Benjamin Nelson solo, Annie Clifford and Cities Turned to Sand.

We will be running a 'Seasonal Bar' all night featuring egg nog and other holiday spirits!